[flameboy54]

KESWICK, ONT. — The 15-year-old black belt thought he was doing his tormentor a favour when he elected to fight back with his weaker left hand.

He had heard his white classmate throw an angry racial slur in his direction after an argument during a gym class game of speedball, and now the student was shoving him backward, refusing to retract the smear.

The white student swung first, hitting the 15-year-old with a punch to the mouth.

The 15-year-old heard his father's voice running through his head: Fight only as a last resort, only in self-defence, only if given no choice, and only with the left hand.

His swing was short and compact, a left-handed dart that hit the white student square on the nose.

The nose broke under his fist, igniting a sequence of events - from arrest to suspension to possible expulsion - that has left the Asian student and his family wondering whether they are welcome in this small, rural and mostly white community north of Toronto, one that has been touched by anti-Asian attacks in the past.

The 15-year-old, the only person charged in connection with the April 21 school fight, faces one count of assault causing bodily harm.

But a remarkable thing happened this week.

On Monday, 400 of his fellow students, wearing black in solidarity and carrying signs of support, walked out of Keswick High School to rally in protest in front of their school.

Organizer Mathew Winch, a Grade 12 student, said the school has fewer than 10 Asian students, but everyone wanted to stand up against bullying and racism. The story even hit the front page of local newspapers.

After the public outcry, the York Regional Police hate crimes unit reopened the case. Although the other student has not been charged, further charges are possible, a spokesman said yesterday.

The case is particularly sensitive because of a series of attacks on Asian fishermen in the same area in 2007 - given the name "nipper tipping" by locals - which led to a high-profile investigation by the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Five such cases in 2007, ranging from violent car chases to fishermen on piers being pushed into the water, led to criminal charges. As a result of the publicity, many other Asian anglers came forward to say they had been abused or harassed while fishing in the Lake Simcoe area.

The Asian boy's father is a martial-arts master who trained with the Korean national team. He brought his family to Canada in 2004.

They settled in Keswick in 2006, and his son, who is still learning English, has studied hard to become a top student.

He proudly showed off a report card with a 90-per-cent average. The boy has struggled a little socially, his parents said, which makes the outpouring of support from his classmates all the more remarkable.

"It's the first time in my life I ever fought someone. I've been trained not to attack. It's total self-defence," the boy said. "I felt sorry because I broke his nose, but I can say he deserved it because he called me the racial comment. He started the fight, he punched me first."

He said the boy called him a "fucking Chinese," a comment he instantly knew was far from a joke.

"It's upsetting," he said. "I don't know how better to tell it."

For the moment, both students are suspended from Keswick High School, but the Asian student's parents have been told he could be expelled and forced to find a new school.

They are shocked and saddened by the ordeal.

The day after the fight, an older cousin of their son's antagonist approached him in the school cafeteria and uttered a similar slur, compounding their sense of despair.

"He said, 'You punched my cousin you Chinese fuck,' " the 15-year-old said. That student was overheard by a teacher and suspended.

His father explains that the easiest course would be to move somewhere else and get a fresh start for his son. But he can't do it.

"I don't want to run away. If another Asian kid comes to this school, what happens to him? Will he run into problems? Will they think they can just kick him out? I don't want to set that example," he said.

"Personally, for my kid, I should move. But as a Canadian I cannot move."


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090430.wkeswick30art22312/BNStory/National/home

+1 for the kid fighting back, both physically and politically and +1 for the community coming together. It's unfortunate that shit like this still happens.

[CRS]

Its just terrible when the bully cries foul when he gets retaliation but throughout his course of attack, it seems perfectly fine.

Makes me hate freedom.

[!Yaminashi]

Its just terrible when the bully cries foul when he gets retaliation but throughout his course of attack, it seems perfectly fine.

Makes me hate freedom.

Completely agree

[Death2Theft]

Heh howcome you never hear about this stuff happening in vancouver?

[unit]

^because my high school was 50% asian

[3seriesBeeM]

shows you how weak these bullys are one kid retalliates and he goes and cries about it. if you are going to initiate the bullying you better be ready to handle the consequences of picking the wrong target. hopefully the bully gets charged and expelled and all charges dropped against the asian kid

[Presto]

Reminds me of the vid, where a bully, twice the size of his 'victim', gets his teeth broken:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/463670/

[Great68]

Fucking Honkey.

[!Yaminashi]

Reminds me of the vid, where a bully, twice the size of his 'victim', gets his teeth broken:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/463670/

Wasnt that kid into martial arts and wrestling though?
The white kid didnt stand a chance:haha:

[DHP 1]

sadly the minority in this world always gets picked on

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

how does the faggot not get in the biggest shit in the world when he started the fucking racism attack? while the asian kid is getting in shit for self -defence? how does this work?


someone pulls a gun on you (thinking the others arent packing heat) than he gets shot because the other person feel their life is in danger. and the person gets punished for self-defence when his life was on the line?

the boy punched back, broke the white kids nose..boooo cry me a river.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

[hotjoint]

retarded

[Presto]

Wasnt that kid into martial arts and wrestling though?
The white kid didnt stand a chance:haha:

It's, basically, the same story as the OP. New kid in school. Gets picked on, and bully challenges him to fight, not knowing that the kid he's pickin' on is proficient in martial arts.

[GLOW]

:thumbsup: to the students at the school for supporting the kid

to the cops and schoolboard for handling the case:
http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/54/cat_FACEPALM.jpg

[Psykopathik]

self defence. how hard is that to understand?

[Gt-R R34]

the cops are retarded, the school board is retarded.

Where can we file a protest??

[absolution]

black belt...sigh...

[dachinesedude]

I think its because the kid has a black belt, that he's getting more heat. He himself is a weapon (I think?)

Either way, white dude should get punished more for instigating

[absolution]

any video?

[Synaptik]

at least this shit doesnt happen around vancouver, too many asians.

[rsx]

how does the faggot not get in the biggest shit in the world when he started the fucking racism attack? while the asian kid is getting in shit for self -defence? how does this work?


someone pulls a gun on you (thinking the others arent packing heat) than he gets shot because the other person feel their life is in danger. and the person gets punished for self-defence when his life was on the line?

the boy punched back, broke the white kids nose..boooo cry me a river.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Considering the subject is about prejudice, you might want to leave out the word 'faggot' in trying to advocate for tolerance.

[penner2k]

I think its because the kid has a black belt, that he's getting more heat. He himself is a weapon (I think?)

Either way, white dude should get punished more for instigating

Exactly..
Just think of the movie Con Air.. He was defending himself BUT since he had way more training then the other guys he was the one that got fucked over.
I'm sure with this getting so much publicity things will get sorted out.
The only thing that worries me is that it seems like hate crimes are pretty common in that town. I wouldnt be at all surprised if someone is gonna retaliate

[rsx]

Exactly..
Just think of the movie Con Air.. He was defending himself BUT since he had way more training then the other guys he was the one that got fucked over.
I'm sure with this getting so much publicity things will get sorted out.
The only thing that worries me is that it seems like hate crimes are pretty common in that town. I wouldnt be at all surprised if someone is gonna retaliate

nice reference to Con Air. :thumbsup:

[KingDeeCee]

WHAT THE FUCK?! 15 Year old black belt?!

[wouwou]

Exactly..
Just think of the movie Con Air.. He was defending himself BUT since he had way more training then the other guys he was the one that got fucked over.
I'm sure with this getting so much publicity things will get sorted out.
The only thing that worries me is that it seems like hate crimes are pretty common in that town. I wouldnt be at all surprised if someone is gonna retaliate

But, unlike Con Air, that Asian dude is not trained in combat techs that are aimed to kil with efficiency.

And seriously, what kind of fucked up racist doesnt assume that Chinese know Kung Fu?

[ShanghaiKid]

some of us asians should move there and start cracker tipping :)


JK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wouwou]

WHAT THE FUCK?! 15 Year old black belt?!

We Chinese starts training at age 3, and we fake our passports so that we are younger, legally.

According to some people in the world.

[flameboy54]

WHAT THE FUCK?! 15 Year old black belt?!

As per the article...

The Asian boy's father is a martial-arts master who trained with the Korean national team.

[m4k4v4li]

whoa thats pretty cool how the other students stood up for him

[PavelGTR]

WHAT THE FUCK?! 15 Year old black belt?!

Whats so surprising? many kids have their black belt

[moomooCow]

So is the kid Korean or Chinese?

But thats seriously messed up. It was obviously a provoked attack and he is the one that gets in shit?? Way to support bullying. :thumbsup:

[quasi]

Heh howcome you never hear about this stuff happening in vancouver?

I've seen it happen. One time the bully got stabbed by the nerdy asian kid who was losing his hair at the age of 14. Another time I watched the school dork drag a bully over to a desk and repeatedly smash his face off a desk with a death grip on the back of his hair. When I lived in Saskatchewan I watch a grade 7 bully get shit kicked by a kid 2 years younger then him. He ripped his earing out of his ear tearing his ear lobe, smashed him in the face and then once on the ground he stomped on his face until he was unconcious. The next day the bully comes to school with the kids shoe print in his face, no joke the fucking shoe print was in his forehead it was awesome.

Nobody expelled, the guy who did the stabbing and the guy who got stabbed were both suspended for 3 days and then allowed back. This happened about 19 years ago.

[oinkoinkpig]

So is the kid Korean or Chinese?

But thats seriously messed up. It was obviously a provoked attack and he is the one that gets in shit?? Way to support bullying. :thumbsup:

He's Korean, but because the white guy probably thinks every asian person is chinese...he called him a "fucking chinese"

[Nightwalker]

Criminal charges? wtf they're 15 and it was a 2 punch fight.

[Gridlock]

I find it interesting that there is such an outcry over bullying, with tv ads and newspaper articles. When it happens that this kid, in this situation gets bullied, he gets fucked for defending himself. How many times did he have to get hit-first! before he was allowed to fight back? He even hit him with his left hand.

Oh, you are a black belt which means that you have to get your ass kicked because some kid picked on the wrong asian? Fuck that.

You want to combat bullying in schools you need to face facts that kids in school aren't going to suddenly stop, get to your deep inner feelings and come out the other side singing kumbaya while roasting marshmellows sharing a new found respect for each others cultures.

Liberals are going to have to accept that sometimes kittens can't lick all the problems away.

[Alatar]

I had two friends who were under 18 (14 and brown belt) and 17 (and black belt). They were both Japanese. I saw the Brown Belt go ballistic on someone once. Open palm hits on the guy, who just wouldn't lay off him and he finally stopped putting up with the jabs and shit from the other guy. Needless to say, if he'd been using fists or chops, would've been some serious injuries. As it was... the other guy getting slapped up from every direction was almost funny to see.

[jeffh]

im sure the argument against the oriental kid was that he could have subdued his bulley without smashing his face in. legally and in a perfect world he woulda just put him in a solid restraining hold and waited till authorty stepped in to break it up

not that thats the way it should go, but thats the way fucked up lefties thin kit shoulda gone

personally i LOVE watching tough guys get fucknig schooled

one of my friends in highscool was born with 7 fingers, everyone made fun of him and called him an alien all the time, but 7 fingers with an ordinary sized hand means your knuckles are fucking HUGE when we were in grade 10 he fought a grade 12 guy that was flapping off, he beat him down so bad the grade 12 didnt come back to school for 3 weeks, knocked 2 earings out, a tooth split his lip and left lumps all over his face

it was epic lawlz

[asian_XL]

self defence. how hard is that to understand?

sorry, it can't be self defence in a situation like this...unless the asian kid
pushed him away to avoid the fight and he fell, then you can call it a self
defence. Nothing accidential here.

[SkinnyPupp]

BRB, I'm gonna go to Aberdeen Harbour for some nipper tipping

[tiger_handheld]

self defence ... i like the fathers last statement " i can not move as a canadian" WOW!

[quasi]

BRB, I'm gonna go to Aberdeen Harbour for some nipper tipping

I don't know why but I just laughed out loud and now my wife is looking at me like I'm a retard.

[JHuJHu]

my highschool is 90% asian. rofl

[LemonH2O]

I went to 1 of maybe 3 fairly white high schools in Richmond. By grade 12 though, it was probably like 70% Asian! But I mean, there wasn't this kind of racism..the white kids hung with the white kids, the Asians with the Asians, then the odd CBC in with the white kids, the odd white kid with the Asians...

[pintoBC_3sgte]

Reminds me of the vid, where a bully, twice the size of his 'victim', gets his teeth broken:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/463670/

lol great watch again... always good to see a bully pay for his actions

[Lomac]

sorry, it can't be self defence in a situation like this...unless the asian kid
pushed him away to avoid the fight and he fell, then you can call it a self
defence. Nothing accidential here.

The white kid punched first. Technically by all legal (and martial art) definitions, one or two punches back that are designed to help diffuse the situation are fine. By legal law, if someone comes at you with a closed fist and refuses to open it after you ask him to, you're allowed to go at him as it's considered self defence. You'll probably find a bunch of lawyers willing to say that's not true, but it is. It's handy having a Sensei that's also an ex-ERT member. I got to know all the in's-and-out's of the legal law when it comes to self defence.

[truong]

All asians know kung fu :haha:

[StylinRed]

black belts are handed out like white belts by the majority of schools

funny how the article kept referring to the bully as the white kid

[aznrsx1979]

When I was in high school, I remember playing baseball against a team from Surrey. Not only were the kids on the Surrey team calling me a chink, so were their parents and the umpire laughed at me when he was talking to the parents when I came up to the plate to hit. It was a big shock to me, my teammates and the parents that came along.

I did get the last laugh on the pitcher though when I hit the ball about 400ft to left field and over the outfielders head and then stole 3rd base. I scored on a base hit and said "Hey look, this chink just scored the first one. I guess you guys like being behind here". I said a few other things when I stood at the plate and everyone on my team and parents from our town started laughing. After that, the other team shut up.

I'm glad I haven't faced any other points of racism in my life after that.

[GLOW]

When I was in high school, I remember playing baseball against a team from Surrey. Not only were the kids on the Surrey team calling me a chink, so were their parents and the umpire laughed at me when he was talking to the parents when I came up to the plate to hit. It was a big shock to me, my teammates and the parents that came along.

I did get the last laugh on the pitcher though when I hit the ball about 400ft to left field and over the outfielders head and then stole 3rd base. I scored on a base hit and said "Hey look, this chink just scored the first one. I guess you guys like being behind here". I said a few other things when I stood at the plate and everyone on my team and parents from our town started laughing. After that, the other team shut up.

I'm glad I haven't faced any other points of racism in my life after that.

you pwnd them to the point where they shut the f*ck up, i like it :thumbsup: